NSF Funding for Advancing Basic and Applied Data Sciences – Proposals Due May 15, 2018

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The US National Science Foundation invites proposals for the agency-wide BIGDATA program, which funds novel approaches in the interdisciplinary field of data science, including potential applications in the social and behavioral sciences.

According to the solicitation, the BIGDATA program “seeks innovative applications in domain science, including social and behavioral sciences, education, physical sciences, and engineering, where data science and the availability of big data are creating new opportunities for research and insights not previously possible.

Eligible proposals must fall under one of the categories below:

  • Foundations (BIGDATA: F): proposals on the fundamental theories, techniques, methodologies, and technologies of broad applicability to big data problems, motivated by specific data challenges and requirements; and
  • Innovative Applications (BIGDATA: IA): proposals engaged in translational activities that employ new big data techniques, methodologies, and technologies to address and solve problems in specific application domains. Projects in this category must be collaborative, involving researchers from domain disciplines and one or more methodological disciplines, e.g., computer science, statistics, mathematics, simulation and modeling, etc.

Recent BIGDATA grants in the social and behavioral sciences explored concerns about privacy in the era of data cloud-based systems (e.g. Google Cloud), the integration of documents (e.g. news sources) with different formats to better understand the dissemination of information about real events, and new ways of understanding and designing online interaction across different levels of scale (e.g. community vs global).

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BIGDATA Proposals are due May 15, 2018. To read the full solicitation, please click here.


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